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Kid’s friend catchup (+/-)

The computer repairs were mostly morning. Midday was friend drama. Former neighbors, whose kid used to play with ours (and still does, just online now), came by to visit the relatives who took over their lease when they moved last year. Kids were playing, catching up, wanted to ride bikes (ours fixed up his old bike, which we never got around to finding a home for when he outgrew it), but of course they didn’t bring a helmet, and he was NOT happy when they had to go

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Got out for a bike ride with the kid today & he wanted to stop at a local smoothie place.

Got out for a bike ride with the kid today & he wanted to stop at a local smoothie place. We sat outside and drank the smoothies. (Hard to take them home on a bike.) Closest thing I’ve done to eating in a restaurant in ~15 months.

It wasn’t as weird as a couple months ago when I grabbed coffee and a muffin and ate outside at a planter (not in front of the coffee place). Probably because that was the first time I’d eaten away from home *at all* in a year.

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#TheFlash vs. the atomic banana peel.Apparently from Justice League of America #154, May 1978. …

#TheFlash vs. the atomic banana peel.

Apparently from Justice League of America #154, May 1978. Sometimes it’s easy to forget that bronze-age #comics could be as goofy as the silver-age ones.

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/162727/in-which-comic-is-the-flash-sent-flying-into-space-after-slipping-on-an-atomic-b

#TheFlash vs. the atomic banana peel.Apparently from Justice League of America #154, May 1978. ...

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covid-adjacent, mailing lists

The insurance company sent the kid a card reminding him it’s important to get the covid-19 vaccine.

Even though they know he’s not old enough.

I figure it’s probably a right hand/left hand thing, where the insurance side gave the outreach side a list without filtering by eligibility, and the outreach side can’t access it for privacy reasons.

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covid-adjacent, trying to figure out current rules

I went out for a walk this afternoon and saw a lot more people than usual and a lot fewer of them wearing masks (until I got closer to the business-zoned streets), and with the recent change in CDC recommendations, I’ve been trying to find the current status of outdoor requirements in all the local cities, county, and state…and I’m not finding a clear answer.

Getting my second shot tomorrow, figure I’ll keep masking for the next 2 weeks anyway

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Apparently if I go out walking to birdwatch or to get somewhere, I still need to keep my distance *and* wear a mask along the way, but if I go out walking to exercise, I only need to keep my distance. ???

Realized I’m stressing out over the vaccine appointment tomorrow because part of me is convinced Something Will Go Wrong before I can get to it.

And partly wondering if it’ll knock me out worse than the first dose did. (Serious fatigue for about 24 hours starting later that afternoon.)

Still, better and shorter than even a “mild” case of the actual virus, though!

I really liked Outer Wilds

In response to a post about “chill games”

I really liked Outer Wilds. A space exploration game that starts in a forest, where you can toast marshmallows on multiple planets, the whole system is in a time loop, environments change drastically between the early and later parts of the loop, and you find other astronauts by listening for the music they’re playing.

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Unsafe bottled water in news, pet & human illness

I remember seeing this brand of bottled water a couple of years ago. The marketing-speak on the box really set off my BS detector.”Beyond alkalinity! We add negative ions!”

So I shouldn’t be surprised they ended up putting someone unqualified in charge of the process, *not training him*, and making the stuff actively poisonous. (Though the article doesn’t indicate what caused the cases of liver damage.)

Technician for water co. linked to liver failure says his dog got liver illness
Technician said he only had a couple of hours of training and did what he was told.

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When I write something new on my gemlog or import an older blog entry, sometimes I’ll also import…

When I write something new on my gemlog or import an older blog entry, sometimes I’ll also import related posts so I can link within the #gemini capsule instead of out to the web.

I was importing a post on how functional memorabilia is both irreplaceable and easily replaceable depending on how you look at it, and it mentioned my #Mozilla #Coffee mug – which I still have.

Gemlog: (Ir)replaceable?
Blog: (Ir)replaceable?

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But yeah, Mozilla Coffee was briefly a thing, back in 2003-2004. It wasn’t a run by Mozilla, it was someone who had a mail-order coffee business who branded some of it and donated half the profits to the Mozilla Foundation.

Gemlog: Remembering Mozilla Coffee
Blog posts tagged Mozilla Coffee

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